Fibromyalgia Support Group

You're not alone in your pain. Fibromyalgia is a condition that can be difficult to diagnose and manage. If you're trying to cope with pain throughout your body, sleep problems, general fatigue, or other common fibromyalgia symptoms, you're in the right place. The community is here for you to talk about therapies and share your challenges.

Do you hurt more on one side?

I hurt way more on the right side of my body than the left. Shoulder, arm, elbow, wrist, fingers, mid-back, lower back, hip, buttock down thru thigh, ankle, foot and toes. I just think it's strange to hurt more on one side than the other. I just don't get this awful pain at all. I thought exercise is supposed to make you feel better! I'm just having another bad day. I have been on gabapentin for a month and it's not helping. I'm on 900 mg a day. I'm thinking the doc will increase this dose. I see my rheumy tomorrow and I will let him know my concerns. O'k I'm done. Sherry

I do...and I always have...tho my Right side is Much stronger then my left side..it is also the side that gives me the most fits..to much overcompensating for the left side perhaps ?? yea, I dunno...i just know there is a distinguishable difference in Pain levels from one side to the other...

Could be that your using that side more which is natural if you are right handed. I put the strap of my handbag over my right shoulder so the bag itself rests on my left side, this leaves both my hands free to use my cane and anything else I wanna do with my left hand.
You also may have misaligned hips, this will tilt your body to one side. To find out, put n a wide belt so that it will sit on your hip, attach a longon string with some weight on the ends that you can see, if one side is lowere thatn the other, you will be able to see it. Or you could visit a chiropractor who should be able to tell you if you are misaligned.
Feel better soon, hugs,Owlxxx

&quot;I hurt way more on the right side of my body than the left. Shoulder, arm, elbow, wrist, fingers, mid-back, lower back, hip, buttock down thru thigh, ankle, foot and toes.&quot;

I cannot believe I just read this. You have described my Fibro pain perfectly. Worse on right side from shoulder down to toes. I take 2400 mg of Gabapentin a day and a few other pain meds due to pain from the spinal conditions. Gabapentin takes the edge off some of the pain but I don't feel like it has helped with the Fibro pain. Nothing has helped with that pain but heat and sometimes light exercise. A hot bath helps and a heating pad but usually only for a couple hours.

You are not alone, i suffer more in upper arms, neck, whole of back, head than lower part of my body, i do get the biting ants in my feet but legs are not too bad but there is stil time as this illness is very new to me. I started having loads of pain earlier this year after i had been made redundant, but the more i think back the i think it started way before. i am also suffering loads more mood swings, fibro fog and dizziness at the mo.

My right side hurts the most too, all the way from toes on my right foot up to neck area. My left side has all the same symptoms, but the right side has more intesified pain and numbness. I recently began Lyrica and I'm noticing some difference, but as someone else said, mostly the improvement is just in my legs. As far as exercise stretching throughout the day seems to help &quot;loosen&quot; things up a bit. I also try to walk, but within 15 minutes my hands/arms really hurt from the numbness (the swinging motion I guess). I can still walk, but hurts while doing.

My left side is way worse than my right, from head to toe. At least twice the pain and lots more problems. I have tried everything from &quot;babying&quot; that side to never lying on it, to extra heat to self-massage (leg and arm) to trying to keep weight off of my left side as much as possible. Nothing I have tried really works for long, if at all. My doctor recently gave me cortocosteriod injections, with lidocaine, in my left outer thigh and that did help for about a week or so. I'm supposed to get another round of injections next month, since you have to wait a minimum of 4 weeks and preferably 6 weeks before injecting that stuff in the same location. Will have to wait and see if it helps any longer than last time.

Well now I know I'm not alone. Thanks for your replies. I just got back from my dr. appt. We are changing from the gabapentin to cymbalta. Trial and errors!
My rheumy also has physical therapy and they are working on a program specific for fibro. He said it should be ready in about a month. I'm looking forward to it! Always hope!

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